AN ACT
to provide the north carolina general assembly special police with statewide
law enforcement jurisdiction.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1. G.S. 120-32.2 reads as
rewritten:

"§ 120-32.2.
General Assembly Special Police.

(a) All sworn
members of the General Assembly Special Police employed by the Legislative
Services Office are special police officers, and have all the powers of
policemen of cities, within any of the following areas of jurisdiction, while
on official duty:

(1) Within those
areas of the City of Raleigh and of the unincorporated parts of Wake County
surrounded by the innermost right-of-way of Interstate 440.

(2) In any part
of Throughout the State:

a. While
accompanying a member of the General Assembly who is conducting, or traveling
to or from, his or her official duties.

b. While
preparing for, or providing security to, a session of either or both houses of
the General Assembly, or official events directly related to that session.

c. While
performing advance work for continuity of government planning and performing
advance work and providing security for the protection of legislative
members, staff, and the public for any meeting of a study, standing, select, or
joint select committee, a caucus, or any committee or commission
meeting of the General Assembly, or any state, regional, or national meetings
of legislative bodies or organizations representing legislative bodies, and while
accompanying a member of the General Assembly to or from any event listed in
this subdivision.

d.While
conducting a criminal investigation of a threat of physical violence against
the General Assembly, a member or staff of the General Assembly, or their
immediate family.

e.While
accompanying a member of the General Assembly for the purpose of providing
executive protection in response to a threat of physical violence.

f.While serving a subpoena issued by the General Assembly or any committee of
the General Assembly authorized to issue a subpoena under the provisions of
Chapter 120 of the General Statutes.

"(b) General Assembly
Special Police officers may arrest persons outside the areas described in
subsection (a) of this section when the person arrested has committed a
criminal offense within any of the areas, for which the officer could have
arrested the person within that area, and the arrest is made during such
person's immediate and continuous flight from that area.

(c) The General
Assembly Special Police officers have the exclusive authority and
responsibility for enforcing the parking rules of the Legislative Services
Commission."

SECTION 2. G.S. 120-19.2(d) reads as
rewritten:

"(d) Any witness shall have
five days' notice of hearing, unless waived by the witness, and subpoenas may
be served by a member of the General Assembly Special Police, the State
Bureau of Investigation, the State Highway Patrol, or within their respective
jurisdiction by any sheriff or deputy, or any municipal police officer or other
law-enforcement officer. Members of the General Assembly Special Police may
serve subpoenas issued under this Chapter anywhere in the State. In
addition, a subpoena may be served in the manner provided for service of
subpoenas under the North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure."

SECTION 3. G.S. 120-32.1(b) reads as
rewritten:

(b) The Legislative
Services Officer shall have posted the rules adopted by the Legislative
Services Commission under the authority of this section in a conspicuous place
in the State Legislative Building and the Legislative Office Building. The
Legislative Services Officer shall have filed a copy of the rules, certified by
the chairman of the Legislative Services Commission, in the office of the
Secretary of State and in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Wake
County. When so posted and filed, these rules shall constitute notice to all
persons of the existence and text of the rules. Any person, whether on his own
behalf or for another, or acting as an agent or representative of any person,
firm, corporation, partnership or association, who knowingly violates any of
the rules adopted, posted and filed under the authority of this section is
guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or
association who combines, confederates, conspires, aids, abets, solicits,
urges, instigates, counsels, advises, encourages or procures another or others
to knowingly violate any of the rules adopted, posted and filed under the
authority of this section is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The President
Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives may
waive in writing the application of any rule adopted by the Legislative Services
Commission to either or both of the House and Senate Sergeants-at-Arms of the
General Assembly, and such a jointly-executed waiver shall be a defense against
any prosecution for violation of such rule. Such a waiver shall extend no
longer than the expiration of their then current term of office. A copy
of such waiver shall be delivered to the Chief of the General Assembly Special
Police."